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MT. SCOPUS, MAIERSDORF FACULTY CLUB, UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED.

Litwnsky Senate Hall, Hebrew University

Greetings: 

Menachem Magidor, President of the Hebrew University

Yehuda Bauer, Chairman of the International Institute of Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem

Ezra Mendelsohn, Head of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry 

Felix Posen, Honorary Doctor of the Hebrew University

Shmuel Almog, Hebrew University

The Aging of the Victimized Jew

Antisemitism: Approaches, Reassessments, Previews

Dina Porat, Tel-Aviv University

Definitions of Antisemitism

Dalia Ofer, Hebrew University

The Role of Antisemitism in the Historiography of the Holocaust

Antony Lerman, Institute for Jewish Policy Research

Antisemitism at the End of the Twentieth Century:
The New Context of an Old Prejudice

Irwin Cotler, McGill University

The United Nations, Israel, Human Rights, and the New Anti-Jewishness

In the Wake of the War

• Anthony Kauders, Tel-Aviv University

Democratization and Antisemitism in Postwar Germany
• Gilad Margalit, Haifa University

Political Antisemitism in West Germany: The Case of Gerhard Frey’s Newspapers
• Richard Mitten, Central European University

Jews and Other Victims: The “Jewish Question” and Discourses of Victimhood in Austria

The Cold War and Beyond

• Mordechai Altshuler, Hebrew University

Between Governmental and Popular Antisemitism in the Soviet Union, 1945-1953
• Theodore Friedgut, Hebrew University

The USSR, 1945-1991: Transformations of Antisemitism
• Daniel Blatman, Hebrew University

Jews and Polish Society 1944-1946: Strangers in Their Own Land

The Image of “The Jew”

• Chair: Dominique Bourel, Centre De Recherche Francais De Jerusalem
• Jonathan Judaken, Hebrew University

Reflections on the “Jewish Question” in Postwar France
• Sander Gilman, University of Chicago

A Jew in East Germany: Secular Jewish Identity under State Socialism - The Case of Jurek Becker
• Rotem Kowner, Haifa University

Engaging Japanese Antisemitism in the 1990s: The Marco Polo Affair
• Frank Stern, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Visual Representations of the Other - the “Semitic” Gaze from the Screen

Public Lecture 

• Gottfried H. Wagner

Performing Richard Wagner after the Holocaust: A Critical Approach to the Staging of “Nibelung’s Ring”
• Chair: Frank Stern, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Post-Communist Antisemitism

• Leon Volovici, Hebrew University

Antisemitic Discourse in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: An Overview
• Andras Kovacs, Central European University

Antisemitism in Present Day Hungary.
• Raphael Vago, Tel-Aviv University

Patterns of Post-Communist Antisemitism in Eastern Europe

Perceptions and Stereotypes in the Arab World

• Chair: Michel Abitbol, Hebrew University
• Esther Webman, Tel-Aviv University

The Holocaust and the “Nakba” - Recent Developments in the Arab Approach to the Holocaust
• Yochanan Manor, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace

The Image of Jews and Judaism in School Textbooks of the Arab Countries
• Milton Shain, University of Cape Town

Muslim Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in South Africa, 1945-1998

Politics, Society, Ideology

• Rainer Erb, Technische Universitat, Berlin

Antisemitism in Germany: 1948-1998. Politics, Culture, and Public Opinion
• Gulie Ne’eman Arad, Ben Gurion University of the Negev 

The Holocaust and the Discourse of Victimhood in America
• Leonard Dinnerstein, University of Arizona

The Decline of Antisemitism in the United States after World War II

The Church and the Jews: Contemporary Trends

• Sergio I. Minerbi, 

The Catholic Church’s Attitude toward Antisemitism after World War II
• Graciella Ben Dror, Haifa University

The Catholic Church in Latin America: Aspects of Antisemitism, 1965-1999
• Yaakov Ariel, University of North Carolina

Liberal Antisemitism and Conservative Philosemitism? Protestant Attitudes toward Jews
• Gershon Nerel

“Verus Israel”?: Jewish Believers in Jesus – A Challenge for the Church

Holocaust Denial (1)

• Wolfgang Benz, Technische Universitat, Berlin

Denial of the Holocaust in the Growing Distance to the Historic Event. Is There a Chance of Defence?
• Robert Wistrich, Hebrew University

Historical “Revisionism”: A Contemporary Form of Antisemitism
• Per Ahlmark, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden and Honorary Fellow the the Hebrew University

How One Persson Made the Difference: Swedish Reactions to the Deniers of the Holocaust in 1989 and 1999.

Holocaust Denial (2)

• Florent Brayard, Center Marc Bloch

The Reception of the Denial of the Holocaust in France
• Roni Stauber, Tel-Aviv University

From Revisionism to Holocaust Denial - David Irving as a Case Study
• Susan Sarah Cohen, Hebrew University

The Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism: An Overview

Confronting Antisemitism: Jewish Responses

• David Weinberg, Wayne State University

The Response of European Jews to Antisemitism in the Immediate Postwar Period
• Simcha Epstein, Hebrew University

Patterns of Jewish Responses to Antisemitism

Confronting Antisemitism: Legal Approaches

• Hadassa Ben-Itto, Judge Emeritus

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: The Lie that Wouldn’t Die
• Claude Klein, Hebrew University

Struggling against Racism and Antisemitism: The Legal Approach

Toward the Next Century

Participants:

Yehuda Bauer (Yad Vashem)

Sander Gilman (University of Chicago)

Norman Manea, (Bard College, New York)

Robert Wistrich (Hebrew University)